Word: blackboarding
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...room atop Lowell House, studying for exams, I take time off to reflect on the generalities and fragments of my educational experience. Reading through my notes--often hasty and incomplete scrawls--I can nonetheless close my eyes and immediately see the attendant lecture on the blackboard before...
...scrawls are a shorthand for blackboard writing--itself the professor's shorthand--and from this the ideas come flooding back. (Thus I know that the blackboard is involved in what I know...
...were to ask, in the usual sociological way, what relic an alien culture might use to intuit our pedagogy, my vote for the blackboard would be immediate. Here is an artifact whose interdisciplinary presence is rivaled only by the desk and the pencil. Greek classes, French classes, math classes and Core classes all revolve around its inimitable black surface. Professors and TFs--who do not speak the same language--will, in their turn, pick up a piece of chalk and begin to write...
Eventually I was ushered into a small room, where I was not only older than all the other test takers but also older than the teacher monitoring the test. A large carving of Jesus hung above the blackboard, and a copy of TIME magazine, in which I'm pretty sure I mentioned masturbating, lay on a desk. I was sure I was going to hell...
What's special about Preuss can be seen in a visit to a ninth-grade geometry class. While teacher Jerry Lederman leads the class from the blackboard, Rachel Ismerio, a 20-year-old psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts...